Also known as GCI 74-905
Where: Greenland (69.9° N, 54.8° W: paleocoordinates 69.9° N, 54.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• 15-22m above sea level
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Primary reference: O. Bennike, K.B. Hansen, K.L. Knudsen, D.N. Penney, and K.L. Rasmussen. 1994. Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland. Boreas 23:194-215 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75213: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 26.09.2007, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Balanus balanus barnacle | |
Bivalvia | |
"Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum, "Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus
"Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum Fabricius 1780 cockle
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus Mohr 1786 cockle | |
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam | |
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Axinopsida orbiculata Sars 1878 clam | |
Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"? Oenopota trevelliana" = Curtitoma reticulata
"? Oenopota trevelliana" = Curtitoma reticulata Brown 1827 cone shell | |
Buccinum finmarkianum Verkrüzen 1875 true whelk | |
"Lunatia pallida" = Euspira pallida
"Lunatia pallida" = Euspira pallida Broderip and Sowerby 1829 moon snail |